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...Armed force should be exercised only for a few specific purposes. Such purposes include removing an enemy's capacity to wage war and making a show of strength designed to persuade an adversary to stop its belligerent ways. Neither rationale lay behind the order to four Navy destroyers to shell an Iranian oil platform...
...tempered" method of tuning in use since the time of Bach, Partch sought a purer, just intonation based on the harmonic overtones that resonate naturally when any note is sounded. To make his microtones audible, Partch invented a series of exotic instruments constructed out of such objects as artillery shell casings and Pyrex jars...
...shell: the proper name for a thin boat, which holds one, two, four and eight rowers and perhaps a coxswain...
single: a shell with a single sculler...
stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for as head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...